2025 Best Informatics Bachelor's Degree Schools in the Southwest Region

a bachelor's degree in informatics is more popular than many other degrees. In fact, it ranks #203 out of 1232 on popularity of all such degrees in the nation. So, you have a fair amount of options to choose from when looking for a school.

College Factual reviewed 3 schools in the Southwest Region to determine which ones were the best for bachelor's degree seekers in the field of informatics. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 85 bachelor's degrees in informatics during the 2022-2023 academic year.

What's on this page: * Our Methodology

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Choosing a Great Informatics School for Your Bachelor's Degree

The informatics bachelor's degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. Important measures of a quality informatics program can vary widely even among the top schools. Below we explain some of the most important factors to consider before making your choice:

Overall Quality Is a Must

The overall quality of a bachelor's degree school is important to ensure a quality education, not just how well they do in a particular major. To take this into account we consider a college's overall Best Colleges ranking which itself looks at a combination of various factors like degree completion, educational resources, student body caliber and post-graduation earnings for the school as a whole.

Other Factors We Consider

The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.

• Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to informatics students as compared to other majors.
• Major Demand - How many other informatics students want to attend this school to pursue a bachelor's degree.
• Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
• Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized informatics related body.

Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for informatics students working on their bachelor's degree.

One Size Does Not Fit All

Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Informatics Bachelor's Degree Schools in the Southwest Region ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

To further help you make the college decision, we've developed a unique tool called College Combat that allows you to compare schools based on the factors that matter the most to you. Go ahead and give it a try, or bookmark the link so you can check it out later.

Best Schools for Bachelor’s Students to Study Informatics in the Southwest Region

Below you'll see a list of the best colleges and universities for pursuing a bachelor's degree in informatics.

Top Southwest Region Schools for a Bachelor's in Informatics

1

The University of Texas at Austin
Austin, TX

15 Annual Graduates

It's difficult to beat The University of Texas at Austin if you want to pursue a bachelor's degree in informatics. UT Austin is a fairly large public university located in the city of Austin.More information about a bachelor’s in informatics from The University of Texas at Austin

2

University of Arizona
Tucson, AZ

32 Annual Graduates

It's hard to beat University of Arizona if you want to pursue a bachelor's degree in informatics. University of Arizona is a very large public university located in the large city of Tucson.More information about a bachelor’s in informatics from University of Arizona

3

Arizona State University - Tempe
Tempe, AZ

Basic Certificate Highest Degree Type

32 Annual Graduates

Any student pursuing a degree in a bachelor's degree in informatics needs to check out Arizona State University - Tempe. Located in the midsize city of Tempe, ASU - Tempe is a public university with a fairly large student population.More information about a bachelor’s in informatics from Arizona State University - Tempe

Best Informatics Colleges by State

Explore the best informatics schools for a specific state in the Southwest Region .

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Texas	572	6
Arizona	356	32

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Rankings in Majors Related to Informatics

Informatics is one of 5 different types of Computer Information Systems programs to choose from.

Majors Similar to Informatics

Related Major	Annual Graduates
General Computer & Information Sciences	4,304
Information Technology	2,308
Artificial Intelligence	10

Notes and References

• The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
• The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a branch of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) serves as the core of the rest of our data about colleges.
• Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard). More about our data sources and methodologies.